Curling pad



J. CECELIO CURLING PAD Fgb. s, 1929.

Filed June 6, 1928 Egljl I INVENTOR 175%]: Gecelza 4 MA'T TOR EY Patented Feb. 5, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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Application filed June 6,

This invention relates to improvements in curling pads for use in imparting a permanent wave to hair. In this art it-is the practice to separate the hair into strands or looks, to coil each lock about a curling rod, and then to wrap around the lock a pad of absorbent material which has been moistened with a hair softening solution. The whole unit is then surrounded by an electrically-heated element and subjected to as high a temperature as is possible without danger of burning the hair or head of the subject. Thepresent practice is to make the pad of an inside layer or layers of absorbent material, and an outside layer of tin-foil of somewhat larger dimensions, the two layers being stitched together along contiguous edges. The foil performs the double purpose of retaining the moisture within the pad, when rolled up and heated, and also of distributing uniformly the heat so that the hair will not be burned in spots.

Such pads, however, I have found objectionable since when the foil is twisted and tied together adjacent the scalp, it is apt to burn the head, although the heater is not too hot for the hair.

The object of this invention is to overcome this and other objections to thepresent type of curling pads, and to this end I prefer to interpose between the pad of absorbent material and the foil an extra sheet of moisture'proof, but non-conducting, materialwhich extends beyond the foil next to the scalp. Also, I prefer to make the foil thinner than that atpresent used and to join with it a thin sheet of waxed paper to form a single sheet.

Referring to the drawings in which is illustrated the preferred form of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a planview of my pad with parts curled up to show the underlying pieces.

Fig. 2 is a view of the pad as rolled around a lock of hair.

The outermost sheet, accordin to my in 1928.. Serial No. 283,238.

mediate waxed sheet. The three pads may be secured together, that is, the intermediate pad 3 is secured to the composite pad 12 and the pad 5 secured to the other two by one and the same means, such as, wire staples 10 or the like. Preferably said inner pad is composed of a piece of cloth 5 and two pieces of crepe paper 6 and 7. By employing extra layers of absorbent material and making at least a portion of said sheets of paper, my pad will hold and retain an extra amount of moisture.

The three units are secured preferably so that at the end next to the head the intermediate waxed paper extends beyond the other two with the edges of the foil and absorbent material substantially in line, so that the waxed paper between lies next to the head, when twisted and drawn together by metal clip 8, as shown in Fig. 2, about a lock of hair. At the opposite end, the foil may extend substantially beyond both of the other units, so that it may be twisted tightly about rod 9 to keep in the steam. The thinner foil with the waxed paper lining cooperates with the extra paper unit in keeping heat away from the scalp, while the extra capacity of the absorbent layers contributes to better results by enabling me to retain moisture at the higher temperatures possible with my pad.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, I have herein described the principle and operation of my invention, together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is only illustrative and that the invention can be carried out by other means Also, while it is designed to use the various features and elements'in the combination and relations described, some of these may be altered and others omitted without interfering with the more general results outlined, and the invention extends to such use.

Having described my invention, what I edge of said other sheet and on the paper side thereof and adapted to project at one end beyond the end of said first sheet, and a plurality of sheets of absorbent material also secured along the edge of said first sheet above said separate piece of waxed paper.

2. A three unit curling pad for the permanent waving of hair comprising a combined foil and oiled paper unit, a multi-layer unit of absorbent material and an intermediate oiled paper unit all secured together at one edge, and the intermediate unit having one end extending beyond the other two units for the purpose specified.

3. A three unit curling pad for the permanent waving of hair comprising a combined foil and oiled paper unit, a unit of a plurality of layers of cloth and crepe paper and an intermediate oiled paper unit, all secured together at one edge, and the intermediate unit having one end extending beyond the other two units for the purpose specified.

4. A hair treating device to be employed vto wrap around a lock of hair in the process of permanent waving comprising a sheet of foil and a sheet of waxed paper pressed together to form a composite sheet, a separate piece of waxed paper secured to the paper side of said composite sheet by having one edge thereof secured to the same edge of said composite sheet and also adapted to project at one end beyond the end of said composite sheet, and a plurality of sheets of absorbent material also secured to said other sheets adjacent the joined edges of the other two sheets but at the opposite edge of said plurality of sheets, whereby in wrapping a lock of hair the sheets of absorbent material lie innermost and are enclosed by a plurality of thicknesses of the composite sheet with the foil side thereof outermost,

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

JOHN CECELIO. 

